Favorable connections between seasonal footprinting mechanism and El Niño

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 1169-1181

  Park, Jong Yeon ^a   Yeh, Sang Wook ^b   Kug, Jong Seong ^a   Yoon, Jinhee ^c  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

El Nino; North Pacific Oscillation; Seasonal footprinting mechanism

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EL NINO; HEAT FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; WIND VELOCITY; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84874336413     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1477-y     Document Type: Article

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